My Student Tomato-meter: 2018 Edition

The Fall semester is about to began, which means it’s that time of year when I post my updated “student tomato-meter” showing the aggregated results of the ratings — on a scale from one-to-10 — that my students have given to every movie I’ve shown in my film studies classes dating back to the Spring 2009 semester. I’ve now taught 110 classes and shown a total of 479 unique movies. Below is a list of all the films I’ve screened to date, presented in chronological order by release date, along with the average ratings given by my students. Below that I’ve also included a list of the top 10 highest-rated films. My goal as a teacher is to show at least one movie by every great director who ever lived. Please scan the list below and feel free tell me in the comments section who you think I might be missing.

4 responses to “My Student Tomato-meter: 2018 Edition”

Thanks Michael. This list is always very interesting and helpful! I use it as I begin revising courses each Fall. Here are a few films I’ve recently shown that students seem to really like: Whiplash, What’s Up Doc?, Get Out, Moonlight, and Seven Chances (Buster Keaton).

I have a question – in the top 10, Snowpiercer is listed as having a 9.4 aggregate score, but in the main list as 8.9…it seems two films have a 9.1 (Zodiac and Night of the Hunter) – is there a reason for the change in score? It doesn’t seem any of the other films in the top 10 have differing numbers.